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Related: About this forumCNN sorry after clumsy edit shows Hillary Clinton ‘laughing about’ Benghazi deaths
By David Edwards
Monday, January 27, 2014 13:26 EST
CNN apologized on Monday after a video edit made it appear that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was laughing about the Americans who died in Benghazi.
Speaking at the National Automobile Dealers Association, Clinton said that the deaths of Americans during the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi were her biggest regret while serving as secretary of state.
But that statement was immediately followed by laughter from Clinton while the words Hillary: Biggest Regret Is Benghazi remained on the screen.
It was not immediately clear from the editing that CNN had transitioned into a second portion of the question-and-answer session about the 2016 presidential race.
Host Ashleigh Banfield caught the error quickly after the clip aired.
Alright, I want to be real clear here, Banfield said. Those were two separate sound bites that we tried to get to as quickly as possible. We call them tape turns. One of them was about Benghazi and another that was completely separate at a different time was about her thoughts about 2016.
That is our mistake, she was not laughing lets be very clear that the secretary of state was not laughing about the previous comments about Benghazi, Banfield added. But there you have it, comments about 2016.
Watch this video from CNN, broadcast Jan. 27, 2014:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/27/cnn-sorry-after-clumsy-edit-shows-hillary-clinton-laughing-about-benghazi-deaths/
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CNN sorry after clumsy edit shows Hillary Clinton ‘laughing about’ Benghazi deaths (Original Post)
DonViejo
Jan 2014
OP
Yeah right. They are another pseudo news network polluting the airwaves. They will never fit into
lostincalifornia
Jan 2014
#2
Agree, heard that crowly woman saying how the Dems will lose this november because of Obama....
a kennedy
Jan 2014
#3
Haven't watched CNN for years. As far as the medias prognostic capabilities just look at 2012 where
lostincalifornia
Jan 2014
#4
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)1. Shame on CNN!
lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)2. Yeah right. They are another pseudo news network polluting the airwaves. They will never fit into
the shoes of Turner
a kennedy
(29,647 posts)3. Agree, heard that crowly woman saying how the Dems will lose this november because of Obama....
so his SOTU message better be top notch or else. Ugh.....as bad as faux noise.
lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)4. Haven't watched CNN for years. As far as the medias prognostic capabilities just look at 2012 where
they were saying the same babble
ttd3
(1 post)5. CNN could react better
this is so shame soldiers died iand politicians laugh I think it's not the first time that this situation or event had happened. CNN saved some honor by doing this but I thought they could do it be for in the cut and edit before something bad like this happen especially when it's related with others lives.